From: Florian Westphal fw@strlen.de
[ Upstream commit 8e2f311a68494a6677c1724bdcb10bada21af37c ]
Following command: iptables -D FORWARD -m physdev ... causes connectivity loss in some setups.
Reason is that iptables userspace will probe kernel for the module revision of the physdev patch, and physdev has an artificial dependency on br_netfilter (xt_physdev use makes no sense unless a br_netfilter module is loaded).
This causes the "phydev" module to be loaded, which in turn enables the "call-iptables" infrastructure.
bridged packets might then get dropped by the iptables ruleset.
The better fix would be to change the "call-iptables" defaults to 0 and enforce explicit setting to 1, but that breaks backwards compatibility.
This does the next best thing: add a request_module call to checkentry. This was a stray '-D ... -m physdev' won't activate br_netfilter anymore.
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal fw@strlen.de Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso pablo@netfilter.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- include/net/netfilter/br_netfilter.h | 1 - net/bridge/br_netfilter_hooks.c | 5 ----- net/netfilter/xt_physdev.c | 9 +++++++-- 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/net/netfilter/br_netfilter.h b/include/net/netfilter/br_netfilter.h index e8d1448425a7..b1d0d46344e2 100644 --- a/include/net/netfilter/br_netfilter.h +++ b/include/net/netfilter/br_netfilter.h @@ -42,7 +42,6 @@ static inline struct rtable *bridge_parent_rtable(const struct net_device *dev) }
struct net_device *setup_pre_routing(struct sk_buff *skb); -void br_netfilter_enable(void);
#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_IPV6) int br_validate_ipv6(struct net *net, struct sk_buff *skb); diff --git a/net/bridge/br_netfilter_hooks.c b/net/bridge/br_netfilter_hooks.c index 6def85d75b1d..93b5525bcccf 100644 --- a/net/bridge/br_netfilter_hooks.c +++ b/net/bridge/br_netfilter_hooks.c @@ -873,11 +873,6 @@ static const struct nf_br_ops br_ops = { .br_dev_xmit_hook = br_nf_dev_xmit, };
-void br_netfilter_enable(void) -{ -} -EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(br_netfilter_enable); - /* For br_nf_post_routing, we need (prio = NF_BR_PRI_LAST), because * br_dev_queue_push_xmit is called afterwards */ static struct nf_hook_ops br_nf_ops[] __read_mostly = { diff --git a/net/netfilter/xt_physdev.c b/net/netfilter/xt_physdev.c index 1caaccbc306c..7e4063621960 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/xt_physdev.c +++ b/net/netfilter/xt_physdev.c @@ -96,8 +96,7 @@ physdev_mt(const struct sk_buff *skb, struct xt_action_param *par) static int physdev_mt_check(const struct xt_mtchk_param *par) { const struct xt_physdev_info *info = par->matchinfo; - - br_netfilter_enable(); + static bool brnf_probed __read_mostly;
if (!(info->bitmask & XT_PHYSDEV_OP_MASK) || info->bitmask & ~XT_PHYSDEV_OP_MASK) @@ -113,6 +112,12 @@ static int physdev_mt_check(const struct xt_mtchk_param *par) if (par->hook_mask & (1 << NF_INET_LOCAL_OUT)) return -EINVAL; } + + if (!brnf_probed) { + brnf_probed = true; + request_module("br_netfilter"); + } + return 0; }